Elsewhere, a museum and artist residency set within a former thrift store in Greensboro, presents its fourth annual conference ─ this year, themed in conjunction with Southern Accent at the Nasher Museum. Advanced registration is required. Tickets: $10. Register online.

Saturday, January 14, 2017

Join gallery guides Kate Newman and Meg Williams for an extended conversation about challenging works by Kara Walker that address the legacy of slavery in American culture. This discussion will focus on a single work from a series of 15 prints featuring Walker’s signature black silhouettes layered over illustrations first published in Harper’s Pictorial History of the Civil War.

Saturday, January 21, 2017

Painter William Paul Thomas will present a brief lesson and demonstration of various ways to respond to visual art by creating your own sketches. Then you can try it out in the galleries! The Nasher Museum will provide drawing materials. You are welcome to bring your own, but please note that pens, charcoal and wet media are not permitted in the galleries. The program is free with admission. General museum admission is $5 for adults.

Sunday, January 22, 2017

Journey around the world! Explore The Collections Gallery and learn about art from different cultures and eras. Create your own works of art and watch a local artist create a masterpiece. Take in a performance by the popular Rags to Riches Theater for Young Audiences.

Admission to the museumis free on Family Days.

Thursday, February 2, 2017

Margaret Humphreys, Josiah Charles Trent Professor of the History of Medicine, in Duke’s School of Medicine, gives a talk on her research, Intensely Human: The Health of the Black Soldier in the American Civil War, to complement the Kara Walker installation.

Sunday, February 5, 2017

Join museum staff for group discussions of Strapless by Deborah Davis, a story of art and celebrity that centers around the John Singer Sargent portrait of Virginie Gautreau, a New Orleans native who became a 19th-Century “it girl” of Paris. The conversation will take place in The Collection Galleries and include a discussion of the portrait Mrs. John Camfield Tomlinson, nee Dora Grant (1904), by John Singer Sargent.

Visitors are encouraged to read the book prior to discussions. Books are available for purchase in the Nasher Museum Store.

Wednesday, February 8, 2017

Join museum staff for group discussions of Strapless by Deborah Davis, a story of art and celebrity that centers around the John Singer Sargent portrait of Virginie Gautreau, a New Orleans native who became a 19th-Century “it girl” of Paris. The conversation will take place in The Collection Galleries and include a discussion of the portrait Mrs. John Camfield Tomlinson, nee Dora Grant (1904), by John Singer Sargent.

Visitors are encouraged to read the book prior to discussions. Books are available for purchase in the Nasher Museum Store.

Saturday, February 11, 2017

Visit the museum’s collection with gallery guide Ruth Caccavale for a slow art discussion about the Hudson River School painting tradition. The conversation will take place in the American gallery, part of The Collection Galleries, and focus on Kensett’s 19th-century landscape.

Sunday, March 5, 2017

Hillsborough author Lee Smith will give a reading and talk from her newest book, Dimestore: A Writer’s Life, a book of essays that provide a portrait of her own life as well as a look at life in the Appalachian South.
Visitors are encouraged to read the book prior to discussions. Books are available for purchase in the Nasher Museum Store.

Thursday, March 9, 2017

Gallery Talk on recently conserved stained glass works, including one on view for the first time, by Caroline Bruzelius, a professor in Duke’s Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies. The talk is in the in the Medieval Gallery, part of The Collection Galleries.

Saturday, March 11, 2017

Sunday, March 26, 2017

Free Family Days take place on select Sundays from 12-4 PM. On these days families visiting the museum enjoy live entertainment, create hands-on projects and explore exhibitions with a gallery hunt. Materials will be available in English and Spanish.

Admission to the museumis free on Family Days.

Wednesday, April 5, 2017

Join museum staff to discuss Black Panther by Ta-Nehisi Coates, a graphic telling of the politically charged story of Wakanda and the dramatic upheavals faced by its citizens. The conversation will take place in a gallery within Nina Chanel Abney: Royal Flush.

Visitors are encouraged to read the book prior to discussions. Books are available for purchase in the Nasher Museum Store.

Sunday, April 9, 2017

Join museum staff to discuss Black Panther by Ta-Nehisi Coates, a graphic telling of the politically charged story of Wakanda and the dramatic upheavals faced by its citizens. The conversation will take place in a gallery within Nina Chanel Abney: Royal Flush.

Visitors are encouraged to read the book prior to discussions. Books are available for purchase in the Nasher Museum Store.

Sunday, May 21, 2017

Creative collisions at the Nasher! Get inspired by places where visual art, poetry and dance intersect! The Arts in Action LEAP team will present an energetic dance performance inspired by art on view. Poetry Fox will set up his typewriter to create original poems for visitors. Watch an artist create new works of art ─ and then make your own, at activity stations throughout the museum.